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Earlier this month, a senior staff member of Buckingham Palace resigned after being accused of making racist comments to a guest. The incident brought renewed attention to accusations of the royal family being racist or having racist staff members. Last year, in response to Meghan Markle’s claim that a member of the royal family had speculated about the skin tone of her and Prince Harry’s unborn child, Prince William famously reassured the public that the royals are “very much not a racist family.” Still, he and his wife, Kate Middleton, were met with protests and demands for reparations for slavery on their colonial-nostalgia trip to the Caribbean, and the palace’s history of racist hiring practices has continued to be subject to scrutiny.
Although the palace did not identify the individual, it was widely reported that it was Lady Susan Hussey, the late queen’s lady-in-waiting, a senior member of the royal family, and Prince William’s godmother. Ngozi Fulani, who was born in Britain and works for Sistah Space, an organization that provides support for African and Caribbean women affected by abuse, wrote on Twitter that during her visit to Buckingham Palace for an event hosted by Queen Camilla, a royal staff member, whom she identified as “Lady SH,” asked her a series of uncomfortable…
